Quarterly Report 2: April, May, June 2025

Sly And The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Going...

Sly Stone died this week. Sly and the Family Stone were America’s happiest pop group. A mixed-race, gender-integrated funk-soul band, their early albums were euphoric—the most primal expression of what...

Heavy Jelly – I Keep Singing The Same Old Song,...

Before Spotify and YouTube, you discovered music through dodgy physics teachers, £1 compilations, and sheer luck. Nice Enough To Eat wasn’t just a sampler — it was a gateway drug...

Millie Small/Symarip "Enoch Power" 1969

How postwar Britain went from amateur choirs to global pop dominance—driven by immigration, ska, and a lone voice mocking Enoch Powell.